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Advanced Management Topics: A Few Good Managers Wanted
8 credits
Faculty: John Filmer, 867-6159, email: John
Filmer
TuW, 6-10p
Prerequisites: Faculty signature, previous management study, junior
standing or above
Enrollment: 30
CRN: 30620
This is a part-time option of the full-time program of the same title.
Refer to the online 2003-2004 Academic Catalog for additional information
on the full-time program. This continuing program is intended for students
who have previously studied management at a college level and desire an
opportunity for further study and exploration in management-related topics.
It is also suitable for those with actual business/management experience
who wish to build upon that knowledge. Program activities will include
lectures, workshops, colloquia, seminars, case studies and group and individual
research projects intended to build upon the background and experience
of the class and of each student.
Credit may be awarded in management strategy, international management,
marketing, leadership, team building, entrepreneurship, volunteer management,
managing nonprofits, strategic planning, structural impact of geopolitical
issues, project management, issues management, situational ethics, scenario
planning or other subjects depending on students' individual research.
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The Age of Irony: 20th-Century America
8 credits
Faculty: Sarah Ryan, 867-6720, email: Sarah Ryan, and Susan Preciso,
867-6011, email: Susan Preciso
MW, 6-9:30p, Sa, April 24 and May 15, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: $15 for field trip expenses
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 30652
This yearlong program is organized thematically, examining turning points
in American life and thought, especially the development of our sense
of irony, reflected in politics and culture. Each quarter has a distinct
focus, but all have clear interdisciplinary connections. Fall quarter's
work focused on wars and their consequences-intended and unintended-concentrating
on World Wars I and II and the Vietnam War. During winter quarter we looked
at three key movements for social change: the progressive movements of
the early 20th century, the African American Civil Rights Movement of
the mid-century, and the second wave of feminism of the 1960s and 1970s.
Students wrote articles based on their historical research and published
them in a program web-zine. During spring quarter's study of culture as
history, we will see how these turning points were and are reflected in
our cultural lives. We will examine literature, film, music, and the arts,
especially as they confront war and struggles for social change. This
is an all-level program, ideal for returning and transfer students. It
is a broad liberal arts program designed for students who want to improve
their historical knowledge, research skills and (multi)cultural literacy.
We will integrate film study into our work.
Credit may include 20th-century American history, labor history, 20th-century
American literature, research skills and academic writing.
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Chronic Illness, Disability and Deafness
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Joli Sandoz, 867-6820, email: Joli Sandoz, and Anne Ellsworth,
TTY 867-5341, email: Anne Ellsworth
Tu, 6-9p, and Sa, Apr 10, May 8 and 22, 10a-1p. Students will also meet
MW, 5:30-7:30p (ASL III) or MW, 2:30-4:30p (ASL II) depending on which
ASL section they choose. Students registered for the 12-credit option
will also meet Th, 6-9p
Enrollment: 30
CRN: 30669 (8 credits); 30670 (12 credits)
This quarter we'll ground our work in concepts and approaches from critical
sociology, epidemiology, health psychology, history and social justice
advocacy, as well as American Sign Language. Students may take ASL II
or ASL III, depending on their personal skill level. The program will
begin by using basic quantitative skills to examine data in an "aerial
photograph" of health, sickness, disability and deafness in the United
States, then move to exploration of the ways personal experiences and
social prevalence of these conditions are shaped by race, class, gender,
ethnicity and other significant factors. Students registering for 12 credits
will study how people create meaning after significant life disruption
or trauma (especially that related to adult onset of chronic illness,
disability or deafness), and the kinds of useful support communities and
concerned others can offer. The program as a whole relates to careers
in human service and social justice professions, and is open to anyone
who wishes to study deafness, chronic illness and disability. Attendance
at three Saturday sessions is required. In addition, students will be
expected to have access to the Internet either on or off campus a minimum
of two times per week.
Credit will be awarded in American Sign Language; sociology of chronic
illness, disability and deafness; basic quantitative skills; and (for
the 12-credit option) human services: helping individuals.
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Community Practice and Digital Social Change
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Doug Schuler, 867-6704, email: Doug
Schuler&sub=Email from Evening and Weekend Studies Site&title=Contact
Doug Schuler">Doug Schuler, and Marcella Benson-Quaziena, 867-6593,
email: Marcella Benson-Quaziena
W, 6-10p, Sa, Apr 3, and intensive weekends, Apr 17-18, May 1-2, May 22-23,
9a-5p. New students only will meet Fr, Apr 2, 6-9p
Enrollment: 36
CRN: 30697 (8 credits); 30698 (12 credits)
This yearlong program considers how technology is used in activist communities,
communities of interest and communities of place. In general, we explore
relationships between communities in and outside our region. The basic
themes for the program are design and development of community tools,
pattern languages, participatory design, community informatics, social
networks and globalism. Over the course of the academic year we will work
in partnership with various communities.
The guidelines in this program are constrained in several ways. The first
is that the faculty select the project areas in advance. Also, students
work with public domain software (such as PHP, Apache, HTML, Linux and
MySQL) and/or video and other digital media. There will be assigned readings,
writings and discussions related to the use of computers and other technology
in society.
Credit will be awarded in social psychology, participatory social action
and technology studies. There will also be an opportunity to earn an additional
four credits in pattern language and software development using PHP, MySQL
and other public domain technologies to help support community and civic
projects. Alternatively, students can earn an additional four credits
developing a short special project using digital video, digital audio
or both.
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The Control of Nature
8 credits
Faculty: Kevin Hogan, 867-5078, email: Kevin Hogan, and Nancy A.
Parkes, 867-6737, email: Nancy Parkes
M, 6-10p, and Sa, Apr 3, 17, May 1, 15, and 29, 9a-5p
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 30692
We have contaminated the Earth and profoundly altered all natural processes.
We'll examine the effects of humans on our environment in historical contexts.
We'll consider the human struggle against nature, as in this program's
title book by John McPhee. How have cultural and economic structures influenced
our interactions with our environment? Have our solutions to environmental
problems created new problems? Are things getting worse, or are some things
improving? Student research and presentations will be central to this
program.
Credit may be awarded in environmental studies, history and/or ecology.
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Education, Values and Society
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Helena Meyer-Knapp, 867-6549, email: Helena Meyer-Knapp,
and Allen Olson, 867-5485, email: Allen Olson
W, 6-9:30p and Sa, Apr 17, 24, May 1, 15, and June 5, 9a-4:30p
Enrollment: 40
CRN: 30667 (8 credits); 30668 (12 credits)
This continuing program will have as its focus May 17, 2004, which marks
the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education. Our investigation
of the ways in which society and public life educate children will explore
the importance of equality in education and the paradoxes inherent in
that notion. We will maintain our focus on middle and high schools and
will again make comparisons with teenagers' lives in contemporary Japan.
Research and internship options approved by prior arrangement with the
faculty will make it possible for students to enroll for an additional
four credits, with the particular credits depending on the particular
project.
Credit will be awarded in education, ethics and civil rights, and history.
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Evil: Concepts and Realities
8 credits
Faculty: Stephen Beck, 867-5488, email: Stephen Beck and Mark Hurst,
867-6624, email: Mark
Hurst
TTh, 6-10p
Prerequisites:
Sophomore standing or above
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 30653
The words "evil" and "evildoer" are commonly used
to assess both individual and collective human behavior. In this half-time
program, we will examine different concepts and accounts of evil prevalent
in our culture, their theoretical roots, their implications about human
nature, and their personal, political and social consequences. We will
contrast these concepts with the actual psychology of perpetrators and
victims of acts widely considered to be evil. This will be difficult work,
as we will challenge our well-established cognitive structures and assess
this material from historical, philosophical and social science perspectives.
Credit will be awarded in philosophy and psychology (forensic and social).
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Gifts of the First People: Plants as Medicine and Food
8 credits
Faculty: Marja Eloheimo, 867-6448, email: Marja Eloheimo
W, 6-9:30p and Sa, Apr 10, 24, May 1, 15, 29, 9a-5p
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above and faculty signature.
Letter of interest outlining relevant background and current reasons for
interest in the program. Students should have substantial background in
one or more of the following disciplines: Native American studies, botany/plant
ecology, botanical medicine, ecological restoration, horticulture, GIS,
film/photography, Web design or business development.
Special Expenses: $25 activity fee
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 30121
cHabasHcH3d ti cH3la'ub3sh or "Gifts of the First People"
is the new name that Skokomish Traditional Leader, subiyay-Bruce Miller,
has chosen for a Tribal-Academic cooperative project that has been underway
on the Skokomish Indian Reservation for several years. subiyay tells us
that, according to Twana belief, the trees and plants were the first created
people. Their gift to those who were created later was food, medicine
and materials for survival. "Gifts of the First People" embraces
the medicinal plant studies included in the sayuyay Plant Project as well
as other aspects of the project, including habitat demonstration gardens
and edible plant cultivation and harvest.
This year, the project will focus on developing a cross-cultural botanical
medicine and edible plant study integrating western and indigenous traditions.
We will experience, refine and formalize curriculum in botanical medicine,
botany and ecology, horticulture, harvest and plant product manufacture,
business and marketing, educational resource development, Native American
studies, environmental anthropology and community service. Expect the
unexpected as we join together to collaborate in a real-world project
and learn from, about and with the plant people and each other.
Credit may be awarded in botanical medicine, environmental horticulture
and Native American studies, among others.
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Introductory Management Topics: A Few Good Managers Wanted
8 or 12 credits
Faculty: Theresa Aragon, 867-6840, email: Theresa Aragon and Neil
Delisanti, 867-5486, email: Neil Delisanti
Apr 3, Apr 24-25, May 15-16 and June 5-6, 9a-5p; students registering
for 12 credits will meet Tu, 6-10p
Prerequisites: Faculty signature, junior standing or above, Internet
access and one year work experience
Enrollment: 35
CRN: 30663 (8 credits); 30664 (12 credits)
This yearlong program will assess management and leadership in the context
of contemporary technological advances and globalization. We will examine
organizations as interdependent within their economic, political and social
environment. Organizational development and management strategies will
be analyzed in terms of current and future utility. Traditional elements
of management programs such as decision-making, strategic planning, organizational
behavior and conflict management will be incorporated throughout the program.
Application of theory and enhancement of critical thinking and research
skills will occur through developing solutions to problems and case-study
analysis. Assignments will place a heavy emphasis on developing analytical,
verbal, written and electronic communication skills through dialogue,
critical essays and case-study analysis and presentation. Spring quarter
emphasis will be on managerial self-assessment, interpersonal management
skills, leadership, strategic management implementation and organizational
development. Students interested in the 12-credit option should consult
with the program faculty. For advanced management study, please see Advanced
Management Topics: A Few Good Managers Wanted.
Credit will be earned in managerial skills development, international
business and organizational development.
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Privacy and Freedom
8 credits
Faculty: Howard Schwartz, 867-6723, email: Howard Schwartz
TTh, 6-10p
Prerequisite: Some college-level work in history, social science
or philosophy
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 30655
Privacy is a relatively recent "right," as rights go. It wasn't
until the Griswold case in 1963 that the Supreme Court enunciated anything
like a right to privacy. Yet such a right has surely been implicit in
American ideas of individualism and freedom and, as much as Americans
profess that we want to keep their lives private, we have an insatiable
desire to violate the privacy of others and to reveal our own secrets
for therapeutic and economic reasons.
In this program, we will study how the tension between individual and
society manifests itself. This tension includes how information and communication
technology both strengthen and weaken privacy while "confession"
(e.g., Augustine and Rousseau) and memoir demonstrate a desire to reveal
as well as hide. We will also review current public policy debates about
privacy and consider, from a political theory perspective, how much privacy
we really need. The current war on terrorism and the debate over the USA-PATRIOT
Act will also lead us to consider the relationships among privacy, security
and freedom. Does an increase in one lead to a decrease in the others?
Do they complement each other? Is there some optimum balance?
Credit will be awarded in history, politics, philosophy and communications.
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Psychoneuroimmunology
8 credits
Faculty: Betty Kutter, 867-6099, email: Betty
Kutter, and Cindy Beck, 867-6892, email: Cindy
Beck
M, 6-10p and W, 5:30-9p
Prerequisites: Previous course work in physiology and cellular/molecular
biology, junior standing and above or graduate standing
Special Expenses: $25 fee for Approaches to Healing Lecture series
Enrollment: 40
CRN: 30648 (undergrad); 30649 (grad)
This upper-division course will investigate the mechanisms with which
emotions and attitudes affect our physiology and health in biological,
psychological and social contexts. Mondays we'll concentrate on neuroendocrine
physiology, immunology and psychology and how they are intertwined. Readings
will include an immunology text and relevant physiology along with new
research and emerging theories of the mind-body connection. Evaluation
will be based on assignments, class participation and a research project.
Expect to spend at least 24 hours/week on class plus outside work.
Credit will be awarded in immunology, neuroendocrine physiology and integrative
medicine.
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Real-World Computing
8 credits
Faculty: Randy Groves, 867-6588, email: Randy
Groves
W, 6-10p; Sa, Apr 3, 24, May 8, 15, 22, 9a-5p
Prerequisite: Familiarity with Unix/Linux
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 30647
"Open source" is a ubiquitous and popular term these days. What
does it mean? How does open source software compare to commercial software?
How does one acquire and work with it? Is it really "free"?
We'll work at answering these and other questions related to this term.
Students will work in small groups to define, design and implement one
or more projects using open source software packages. We will investigate
the history and some of the legal, social and economic issues surrounding
open source software and also delve into how "open source" ideas
and principles are being applied in other parts of society.
Credit will be awarded from the following areas: computer science, computer
studies and social science.
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Shakespeare, Body and Soul
8 credits
Faculty: Marla Elliott, 867-6096, email: Marla Elliott, and Pete
Sinclair, 867-6588, email: Pete
Sinclair
MW, 6-9:30p
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above
Special Expenses: Between $40 and $60 for theater tickets
Enrollment: 38
CRN: 30665
Why is Shakespeare still such a source of joy, catharsis and wisdom? We
will study his historical context as well as modern interpretations and
re-interpretations. Remembering that the plays are mere blueprints without
bodies to inhabit them, we will also perform our own interpretation of
a Shakespeare comedy.
Live performances and contemporary films will provide insight into interpretation
of the plays. Oral exercises will teach us how language supports and expresses
cultural paradigms. Texts will include Barton's Playing Shakespeare, Linklater's
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice, and Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture.
Credit may be awarded in dramatic literature and Elizabethan history.
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Sight and Incite: Art and Activism
8 credits
Faculty: Ann Storey, 867-5008, and Lori Blewett, 867-6588, email:
Lori Blewett
W, 6-10p, and Sa, 9a-1p
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above
Special Expenses: $15 for art or mask-making supplies
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 30657
The 20th century saw great changes in artistic expression that paralleled
emerging social consciousness. The social movements of the modern period
were also an integral part of much artistic production. This program will
analyze 20th-century art in relationship to social movement theory and
the goals of art activists. We will explore a variety of civil rights
movements, including Mexican/Latino, African American, labor, gender and
peace. Students will have the opportunity to do some hands-on art, including
mask-making, as well as some performance activities.
Credit will be awarded in modern art history and multicultural studies,
with possible credit in art, history or social movements, depending on
the student's individual focus.
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Silk Roads: China, Middle East and the New World
8 credits
Faculty: Char Simons, 867-6710, email: Char Simons, and Hirsh Diamant,
867-6736, email: Hirsh Diamant
W, 6-9p; Sa, Apr 3, 17, May 1, 15, 29, 9a-5p
Special Expenses: $2,000-$2,200 for optional travel to China or
the Middle East
Enrollment: 50
CRN: 30633
For centuries, the ancient Silk Roads moved ideas and goods between the
great civilizations of China, central Asia, India and the Middle East.
From Marco Polo to Genghis Khan to Yo Yo Ma, the Silk Roads have connected
empires and fostered the development of music, art, religion and commerce.
Through study at the Olympia campus and optional trips to China and the
Middle East, we will explore influences of the Silk Roads on the diffusion
of culture, religion and trade. We will consider travel, culture and commerce
as peacemaking activities. Finally, we will explore how the United States
could be a part of the re-establishment and evolution of the essence of
the Silk Roads.
Credits will be awarded in Asian cultures, history, the arts and expository
writing.
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Student Originated Studies in Experimental Chemistry
8 credits
Faculty: Peter Pessiki, 867-6892, email: Peter Pessiki
MW, 6-10p, and Sa, Apr 3, 17 and May 1, 9a-5p
Prerequisite: Faculty signature
Special Expenses: $25 lab fee
Enrollment: 25
CRN: 30625
This advanced, interdisciplinary science course will allow students the
opportunity to research and perform experiments on topics relevant to
their studies and interest. Initial activities will include selecting
a project by defining the question to be answered, then designing and
performing the needed experiments to achieve results. Students will work
individually or in small groups and participate in weekly class discussions
related to problems and progress encountered in their lab work. Evaluations
will be based upon student participation and weekly progress reports (lab
notebook) presentations to their peers.
Credit will be awarded based on each student's project.
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